Re: A puzzle with internet time and NIST time

2012-10-15 Thread Ivan Shmakov
> Paul E Condon writes: > On 20121015_214840, John Hasler wrote: > Paul E Condon writes: >>> Ideas? >> Run cronyc and post the results of the "tracking" and "sources" >> commands. > Now I am running NTP. Is there something I could post from NTP that > would be useful? $ ntpq

Re: PulseAudio sound issues

2012-10-11 Thread Ivan Shmakov
> Alejandro Santos writes: […] > 1. How can I debug this problem? I'd like to file an appropiate bug > on the corresponding bug tracker. While I'm not a PulseAudio user myself, some of those I know use it, so I'm somewhat interested in that, too. (Thanks to Darac

Re: Does nmap support IPv6 ranges now?

2012-08-18 Thread Ivan Shmakov
> Michelle Konzack writes: […] > Starting Nmap 5.00 ( http://nmap.org ) at 2012-08-18 20:24 CEST > Invalid host expression: 2a01:4f8:d12:1300:0:0:0:0/64 -- slash not allowed. > IPv6 addresses can currently only be specified individually > QUITTING! It's the same for nmap 6.00-

Re: self signed repository

2012-07-05 Thread Ivan Shmakov
> Roger Leigh writes: > On Thu, Jul 05, 2012 at 12:09:44PM +0400, stal...@locum.ru wrote: […] >> apt-key list show my key, but apt-get install mytestpackage show >> WARNING: The following packages cannot be authenticated! >> what i doing wrong? > You also need the Release file in

Re: xen hypervisor security update.

2012-07-04 Thread Ivan Shmakov
> Mauro writes: > In debian squeeze there are several xen security updates: > xen-hypervisor xen-utils and so on. > In the debian website there are no information on what are the fixes. ? http://debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2501 > Where can I find them? Apart from c

Re: radeon+ opencl+ non-free-: HOWTO?

2012-07-03 Thread Ivan Shmakov
>>>>> Camaleón writes: >>>>> On Tue, 03 Jul 2012 20:08:57 +0700, Ivan Shmakov wrote: >> Somehow, I've got the impression that OpenCL is supported by some >> free development tools (Clang?) Now, I wonder, if I'm right on >> that, is

radeon+ opencl+ non-free-: HOWTO?

2012-07-03 Thread Ivan Shmakov
Somehow, I've got the impression that OpenCL is supported by some free development tools (Clang?) Now, I wonder, if I'm right on that, is there some kind of HOWTO on how to utilize OpenCL via the free AMD Radeon driver included in Debian? (I hope it is poss

Re: Usenet news - server required

2011-11-04 Thread Ivan Shmakov
> Sian Mountbatten writes: […] > And I found a news server on the web-site www.eternal-september.org > which someone suggested. Note also that thanks to Gmane, it's possible to read and post to this very mailing list via a newsreader, too. Check, e. g.: http://dir.gmane.

Re: Interface configuration - inet6 issues

2011-11-04 Thread Ivan Shmakov
> Axton writes: (Please also consider joining the news:comp.os.linux.networking and news:alt.os.linux.debian Usenet newsgroups. In particular, these are available via the free http://Aioe.org/ service, as well as through http://groups.google.com/.) > To add

Re: command to mv files & folders to dir

2011-09-25 Thread Ivan Shmakov
--- Begin Message --- 2011-09-25, 15:32(+07), Ivan Shmakov: [...] > (I hereafter assume that filenames do not contain any special > codes, such as ASCII LF, or Line Feed, or 10.) > [...] Or backslashes, or trailing blanks. > $ (while read f ; do \ >mv -vi --

[g.l.d.user] Re: command to mv files & folders to dir

2011-09-25 Thread Ivan Shmakov
>>>>> Mark Panen writes: >>>>> On Sat, Sep 24, 2011 at 1:12 PM, Ivan Shmakov wrote: >>>>> Mark Panen writes: >>>>> On Sat, Sep 24, 2011 at 11:53 AM, Ivan Shmakov wrote: [Cross-posting to comp.unix.shell for no goo

Re: command to mv files & folders to dir

2011-09-25 Thread Ivan Shmakov
>>>>> Mark Panen writes: >>>>> On Sun, Sep 25, 2011 at 12:43 AM, Tom Furie wrote: >>>>> On Sat, Sep 24, 2011 at 05:00:47PM +0700, Ivan Shmakov wrote: >>>>> Tom Furie writes: >>>> What's wrong with 'mv /mnt

Re: command to mv files & folders to dir

2011-09-24 Thread Ivan Shmakov
>>>>> Mark Panen writes: >>>>> On Sat, Sep 24, 2011 at 11:53 AM, Ivan Shmakov wrote: >>>>> Mark Panen writes: >>> Made a bit off a muck up off things when i backed up parts of my >>> /home/mark directory to /mnt/deer >

Re: command to mv files & folders to dir

2011-09-24 Thread Ivan Shmakov
> Camaleón writes: > On Sat, 24 Sep 2011 11:40:48 +0200, Mark Panen wrote: >> Made a bit off a muck up off things when i backed up parts of my >> /home/mark directory to /mnt/deer >> In /mnt/deer i know have hundreds of files and folders which i >> rsynced on 22/09/2011. >> I need

Re: command to mv files & folders to dir

2011-09-24 Thread Ivan Shmakov
> Tom Furie writes: > On Sat, Sep 24, 2011 at 11:40:48AM +0200, Mark Panen wrote: >> In /mnt/deer i know have hundreds of files and folders which i >> rsynced on 22/09/2011. >> I need a command line option to put them all In one shot in >> /mnt/deer/zebra. > What's wrong with 'mv /

Re: command to mv files & folders to dir

2011-09-24 Thread Ivan Shmakov
> Mark Panen writes: > Made a bit off a muck up off things when i backed up parts of my > /home/mark directory to /mnt/deer > In /mnt/deer i know have hundreds of files and folders which i > rsynced on 22/09/2011. > I need a command line option to put them all In one shot in > /mnt/de

/home layout and permissions

2011-09-24 Thread Ivan Shmakov
>>>>> Sven Joachim writes: >>>>> On 2011-09-24 08:21 +0200, Mark Panen wrote: [A kind of follow-up to an old news:comp.unix.shell thread [1].] [1] news:87pr9pzgjl.fsf...@violet.siamics.ipv6.uusia.org From: Ivan Shmakov Newsgroups: comp.u

Re: which one: xfig, dia or inkscape

2011-09-22 Thread Ivan Shmakov
> abdelkader belahcene writes: > until now, I used xfig to draw my figures and graphs, but I am not > satisfied, specially when I want to no latin caracters or formula > (like in latex) The PostScript graphics produced by XFig could often easily be combined with LaTeX form

Re: 100% used / file system. Help!

2011-09-20 Thread Ivan Shmakov
> Andrew McGlashan writes: > Lisi wrote: >> I have no backup of my /. Yes, I know. I deserve everything I've >> got. But now that I have been given my just deserts, can any kind >> soul come to my rescue? I would be so grateful I may, of course, >> just have to reinstall. :-( >

Re: 100% used / file system. Help!

2011-09-20 Thread Ivan Shmakov
> Darac Marjal writes: > On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 03:31:26PM +0100, Lisi wrote: >> I have accidentally filled something, that I shouldn't have, on my root >> directory, and have now got a 100% usage of the disk containing my /. This >> is causing me problems. (Now there's a surprise!!)

Depends: logrotate (forever and ever and ever)

2011-09-18 Thread Ivan Shmakov
>>>>> Andrei Popescu writes: >>>>> On Vi, 16 sep 11, 00:48:25, Ivan Shmakov wrote: [Cc: debian-devel@, for this discussion fits there better.] >> I wonder if there should be a separate mailing list to Cc: such bug >> reports. (debian-depe

[g.l.d.user] Re: A quick Q: how do I command something in large amount

2011-09-18 Thread Ivan Shmakov
The following message is a courtesy copy of an article that has been posted to comp.unix.shell as well. > Arnt Karlsen writes: > On Fri, 16 Sep 2011 00:17:47 +0700, Ivan wrote: [Cross-posting to comp.unix.shell for no good reason at all.] >> Whitespace is not a problem as long

Re: automated editing of text files

2011-09-18 Thread Ivan Shmakov
> Aéris writes: > Le 17/09/2011 00:40, Bob Proulx a écrit : […] >> * Secondly if the add-pre-nl.sh script handle multiple file >> arguments then instead of \; use + so that it calls it fewer times >> with as many file arguments as possible. It will be more efficient >> that way.

Re: Debian Policy questions

2011-09-15 Thread Ivan Shmakov
> Andrei Popescu writes: > On Lu, 11 iul 11, 14:51:48, William Hopkins wrote: > Old thread, but still... >> Absolutely! Easy to find examples with apt-cache rdepends dbus. I >> would posit that nearly all packages that depend on DBUS should >> actually depend on libdbus{,-c++,-java,-

Re: A quick Q: how do I command something in large amount

2011-09-15 Thread Ivan Shmakov
> Axel Freyn writes: […] > So you should try e.g. > for FILE in *.txt; do mv "$FILE" "`basename \"$FILE\" .txt`".pdf; done Backticks are obsolete for a long time, and that's precisely the reason. Consider how much cleaner is the following: for FILE in *.txt; do mv "$

Re: A quick Q: how do I command something in large amount

2011-09-15 Thread Ivan Shmakov
> Jochen Spieker writes: > lina: >> for i in a b c >> do >> txt2pdf -input i.txt -out i.pdf >> done > You almost nailed it: > for i in a b c ; do > txt2pdf -input ${i}.txt -out ${i}.pdf > done > Instead of listing the files manually, you can use '*' as a wildcard. > But tha

Re: detecting which pts from vt

2011-09-12 Thread Ivan Shmakov
> Mike McClain writes: > I'm regularly wanting to transport some text from a vt to an xterm > window Is using GNU Screen or tmux an option? They both enable one to have a single “terminal window” to be shared between any number of VT's, XTerm's, SSH terminal sessio

Re: keyboard question..

2011-09-11 Thread Ivan Shmakov
> lina writes: > On Sep 10, 2011, at 23:40, Camaleón wrote: […] >> Google (and also our priceless Debian Reference Guide¹) says it has >> to > How did you input the little 1 in plain email text? Thanks to Unicode, UTF-8, and MIME, e-mail messages' text is no longe

Re: /usr broken, will the machine reboot ?

2011-09-10 Thread Ivan Shmakov
>>>>> Itay writes: >>>>> On Sat, 10 Sep 2011, Ivan Shmakov wrote: >>>>> jacques writes: >>>>> Le 10/09/2011 14:25, Mark Neidorff a écrit : >>>> 2. mount /usr as read only >>> What about updating software &g

Re: /usr broken, will the machine reboot ?

2011-09-10 Thread Ivan Shmakov
> jacques writes: > Le 10/09/2011 14:25, Mark Neidorff a écrit : […] >> 2. mount /usr as read only > What about updating software # mount -o remount,rw /usr # … upgrade… … # mount -o remount,ro /usr # […] -- FSF associate member #7257 Coming soon: Software Freedom Day ht

Re: Problem installing Etch using local mirror

2011-09-09 Thread Ivan Shmakov
> Bob Proulx writes: […] > Another possibility would be Syslinux. The upstream Syslinux site is > down for me at this moment making it hard for me to check docs but as > I recall it still supports floppy disk booting and has a process to > bootstrap a network boot from a floppy disk boo

Re: a quick Q: how to replace the value quickly

2011-09-09 Thread Ivan Shmakov
> John L Cunningham writes: > On Sat, Sep 10, 2011 at 12:03:06AM +0800, lina wrote: >> suppose there is a variable in some bash like i, so in some process >> I used $i so lots, >> but I wanna test one long command on terminal, >> which as like >> run -a $i.pdf -b $i.pdf -c $i.pdf

Re: a quick Q: how to back to the head in terminal

2011-09-09 Thread Ivan Shmakov
> Camaleón writes: > On Fri, 09 Sep 2011 23:59:08 +0800, lina wrote: […] >> ctrl-a does the trick. >> Thanks for both of you. > "Quid Pro Quo" as Dr. Hannibal Lecter would have say :-) > Lina!! Thanks much!! > I was looking for such option (a "home/end" keyword replacement) as

Re: tmux conf stuck

2011-09-08 Thread Ivan Shmakov
> debian writes: […] > Ctrl-A didn't work, but backtick still did! > -I tried to put an obvious error in ~/.tmux.conf... undetected by tmux. > -I tried inserting an "unbind `" into ~/.tmux.conf... backtick tick > works. > -I tried deleting ~/.tmux.conf... backtick still works! […]

Re: virt terminal font problem

2011-09-04 Thread Ivan Shmakov
> Whit Hansell writes: […] > I had a problem when I purchased a new monitor, an LCD, and it > required me to put "vga=785" at the end of the Kernel line in > menu.list file in order to get any video out of the Virtual Terminal > (F1-6). Now that I have reinstalled w. Wheezy, I have the

Re: About the `-u' option of `cp' command

2011-09-03 Thread Ivan Shmakov
> Sven Joachim writes: > On 2011-09-03 09:58 +0200, Rodolfo Medina wrote: […] >> Now, it happens sometimes to me that, even with `-u', `cp' will copy >> the file also when it isn't newer at all than the destination file, >> as here: >> $ ls -lh ing.tex /mnt/pendrive2/ing.tex >> -r

configuring XKB via xorg.conf

2011-09-02 Thread Ivan Shmakov
How do I configure XKB via xorg.conf? I'd like to configure XKB as the following setxkbmap(1) invocation does, but right at the X server's startup time. $ setxkbmap -option terminate:ctrl_alt_backspace,keypad:legacy And how do I get Shift + Num Lock “mouse keys”

Re: [OT] Re: unsuscribe

2011-09-01 Thread Ivan Shmakov
> Eduardo M KALINOWSKI writes: > On Qui, 01 Set 2011, Tony van der Hoff wrote: >> This one didn't (here). >> Is there any concensus on what/how/when these footers are added? It >> seems quite random to me. > That message was GPG-signed, the footer is not added because it would > br

Re: Serial port with Lenny

2011-08-31 Thread Ivan Shmakov
> alex padoly writes: > How I can know if the serial port is active, gphoto2 doent find my > camera (OLYMPUS C-2000Z), this camera is supported by ghphoto2. Use statserial(8) to monitor the serial port state in real time. Try connecting and disconnecting the device to (from

Re: String Manipulation and a Need for RS-232

2011-08-30 Thread Ivan Shmakov
> Martin McCormick writes: […] > I also got that working such that it could read the response and > break out all the CSV variables in to separate strings. In other > words, it does work and with gdb, one can trouble-shoot it fairly > easily. […] > In the standard set of tools that ar

Re: Why s port 111 still open?

2011-08-29 Thread Ivan Shmakov
> shawn wilson writes: […] > root@shawn-desktop:/home/shawn# find /etc/init.d/ -type f -print0 | > xargs -0 -i{} grep -H portmap {} As a news:comp.unix.shell regular, I simply cannot leave such a command line in its present state. First of all, {} is not necessary

Re: Why s port 111 still open?

2011-08-29 Thread Ivan Shmakov
> Lisi writes: > On Monday 29 August 2011 15:29:41 shawn wilson wrote: >> Your issue seems to be resolved. However, I'd prefer to teach a man >> to fish As it were, lsof -i :111 should show you the pid of what >> is on that port. From there, ps and then look through logs or 'find

Re: Why s port 111 still open?

2011-08-29 Thread Ivan Shmakov
> Jochen Spieker writes: > Lisi: […] >> lisi@Tux:~$ find rpcbind >> find: `rpcbind': No such file or directory > This command doesn't do what you expect. It prints all files found > in the directory "rcpbind" in your current working directory. Since > no such directory exists, fi

Re: free software & accessibility

2011-08-27 Thread Ivan Shmakov
>>>>> Scott Ferguson writes: >>>>> On 27/08/11 15:53, Ivan Shmakov wrote: >>>>> Scott Ferguson writes: >>>>> On 27/08/11 13:57, Ivan Shmakov wrote: >>>> [Cross-posting to both sfd-discuss@ and planning-ru@.] […] >>

Re: Is there a way to tell when a system was first booted?

2011-08-27 Thread Ivan Shmakov
>>>>> shawn wilson writes: >>>>> On Aug 27, 2011 1:26 PM, "Ivan Shmakov" wrote: >>>>> shawn wilson writes: >>>>> On Sat, Aug 27, 2011 at 11:43, John A. Sullivan III wrote: […] >>>> Does "uptime" do w

Re: Is there a way to tell when a system was first booted?

2011-08-27 Thread Ivan Shmakov
> shawn wilson writes: > On Sat, Aug 27, 2011 at 11:43, John A. Sullivan III wrote: > On Sun, 2011-08-28 at 00:36 +1000, yudi v wrote: >>> Is there a way to tell when a system was first booted? >> Does "uptime" do what you want or do you mean booted for the truly >> very first tim

Re: A Question about Journalling File Systems and Flash Drives

2011-08-27 Thread Ivan Shmakov
> Scott Ferguson writes: […] > Full backups:- > dd if=/dev/deb_usb | gzip -1 -c > ./deb_usb.img.gz > Full restores:- > zcat ./deb_usb.img.gz | dd of=/dev/deb_usb My e2dis suite, which I hopeful to release soon, will probably be a better fit for such image-level backup

Re: free software & accessibility

2011-08-26 Thread Ivan Shmakov
>>>>> Scott Ferguson writes: >>>>> On 27/08/11 13:57, Ivan Shmakov wrote: >> [Cross-posting to both sfd-discuss@ and planning-ru@.] […] >> Our team would probably have joined the deal, but, unfortunately, we >> don't apparentl

free software & accessibility

2011-08-26 Thread Ivan Shmakov
> Scott Ferguson writes: [Cross-posting to both sfd-discuss@ and planning-ru@.] […] > GNU/Linux provides superior alternatives to JAWS - the only reason > more sight impaired people don't ditch MS is because they don't hear > about it - and because they get stupid advice (you nee

Re: LVM question: what's the difference between /dev/mapper/vg-lv and /dev/vg/lv

2011-08-23 Thread Ivan Shmakov
> yudi v writes: > I created a LV and was going to use the following command to create a > file system: > mkfs.ext4 /dev/vg/lv > someone suggested I use: > mkfs.ext4 /dev/mapper/vg-lv > What's the difference? There should be none. Note, however, that /dev/mapper/ m

Re: Cron script output redirection not working

2011-08-22 Thread Ivan Shmakov
> David writes: > This is something that used to work for me in older Debian releases > (Etch and Lenny I think), but it's no longer working for me in > Squeeze. > Basically, I have a cron stub under /etc/cron.d, with a line like > this: > * * * * * rootcd /tmp/ && ./tes

SSH server

2011-08-20 Thread Ivan Shmakov
> Bob Proulx writes: > RiverWind wrote: >> I used to be able to "ssh" from my shellworld account into my Linux >> box before I got the latest version of the squeeze disk. I am not >> able to do so now. Exactly what needs to be set up or in place in >> order for me to once again be abl

Re: How to read .so lib file

2011-08-18 Thread Ivan Shmakov
> lina writes: > I don't know how to read the .so file under /usr/lib/ > the Binary file. That depends on the purpose. In particular, ldd(1) shows .so's dependencies, nm(1) shows the names' to addresses correspondence (for functions, global variables, etc

Re: how to examine ssh problem

2011-08-17 Thread Ivan Shmakov
>>>>> Alan Chandler writes: >>>>> On 04/08/11 09:15, Ivan Shmakov wrote: >>>>> Alan Chandler writes: >>> (I actually have loads of these in my config file for all different >>> combinations of username and host - I also tend t

Re: Which keyserver to use for debian?

2011-08-17 Thread Ivan Shmakov
> Kent West writes: > I'm getting the "public key is not available" type error on trying to > upgrade my box from lenny to squeeze. Could you please provide the whole error message? Also, what's the output of the following commands: $ dpkg -l debian-archive-keyring $ gp

Re: Transplanting old System to New Drive

2011-08-15 Thread Ivan Shmakov
>>>>> Rob Owens writes: >>>>> On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 06:12:24PM +0700, Ivan Shmakov wrote: >>>>> Martin McCormick writes: >>>>> Ivan Shmakov writes: >>>> It's possible to dd(1) just the filesystem (partition) inst

Re: /etc/inittab not executed upon starting X with startx command

2011-08-15 Thread Ivan Shmakov
> Tech Geek writes: […] > However, I want to do a auto login into my fluxbox (instead of user > typing in username and password in xdm) and I still want the basic > login console on Serial Port 1. So I removed xdm package (apt-get > purge xdm) and added the following line to my /etc/rc.l

Re: Transplanting old System to New Drive

2011-08-15 Thread Ivan Shmakov
>>>>> Martin McCormick writes: >>>>> Ivan Shmakov writes: >> It's possible to dd(1) just the filesystem (partition) instead of >> the whole disk. >> Moreover, the filesystem can be downsized prior to that with >> resize2fs

Re: Transplanting old System to New Drive

2011-08-14 Thread Ivan Shmakov
> Martin McCormick writes: […] > If I use dd to copy the 10-gig drive over to the new drive as in: > dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/hdb bs=20M > it works when I remove the old screamer drive, change the jumper on > the new drive to Master and boot but this is not very efficient as it > wastes

Re: Rsync -- Different Outputs on No Transfer

2011-08-14 Thread Ivan Shmakov
>>>>> Hal Vaughan writes: >>>>> On Aug 14, 2011, at 10:08 PM, Ivan Shmakov wrote: […] >> My guess is that using -O along with -t may reduce the number of >> directories in the -v list. > Thanks. I tried with -O and without it, along

Re: Rsync -- Different Outputs on No Transfer

2011-08-14 Thread Ivan Shmakov
> Hal Vaughan writes: […] > It's not a "must fix" but when I'm scanning output files, obviously > it's a LOT easier to verify everything went smoothly if I get a quick > and simple output than if I have to scan a long list of directories. > It'd be nice to simplify it so I can tell at a

Re: [Slightly OT] Releasing swap space?

2011-08-14 Thread Ivan Shmakov
> Camaleón writes: […] > So, who is going to say that a "/swap" partition is going to be > needed with 8 GiB of RAM? I wouldn't, I just thought kernel makes > use of all of the available resources are allocates them to get the > best performance. Meaning: if you have available resourc

Re: [Slightly OT] Releasing swap space?

2011-08-14 Thread Ivan Shmakov
>>>>> AG writes: >>>>> On 14/08/11 14:35, Ivan Shmakov wrote: >>>>> AG writes: […] > I have recently switched to Xfce4 on Stable from Gnome because the > latter was quite a memory hog and seemed to retain pages in swap > until I logged

Re: [Slightly OT] Releasing swap space?

2011-08-14 Thread Ivan Shmakov
> AG writes: > Just a quick query about releasing swap space. On occasion according to > Conky (system monitoring app), the swap space (set at 3Gb) sometimes > gets used to up to 15% especially if using something like Pan for > usenet. > Is there any value/ harm in releasing this spac

Re: [OT] Google search default lang.

2011-08-14 Thread Ivan Shmakov
> Scott Ferguson writes: […] > To the best of my knowledge Google use geolocation to rank the > physical location of servers in the search results - but *not* > language. Default language is determined by your choice of Iceweasel > language packs, then by system language settings.

Re: LVM write performance

2011-08-13 Thread Ivan Shmakov
> Stan Hoeppner writes: […] > The horrible performance with bs=512 is likely due to the LVM block > size being 4096, and forcing block writes that are 1/8th normal size, > causing lots of merging. If you divide 120MB/s by 8 you get 15MB/s, > which IIRC from your original post, is approx

Re: autoinstalled packages

2011-08-12 Thread Ivan Shmakov
>>>>> Sven Joachim writes: >>>>> On 2011-08-12 17:25 +0200, Ivan Shmakov wrote: >>>>> Sven Joachim writes: […] >> Also there's the APT::Get::AutomaticRemove option, which, if set >> to false, I expect to prevent APT from removi

Re: autoinstalled packages

2011-08-12 Thread Ivan Shmakov
>>>>> Scott Ferguson writes: >>>>> On 13/08/11 01:25, Ivan Shmakov wrote: >>>>> Sven Joachim writes: […] >> Also there's the APT::Get::AutomaticRemove option, which, if set >> to false, I expect to prevent APT from removing t

autoinstalled packages

2011-08-12 Thread Ivan Shmakov
> Sven Joachim writes: > On 2011-08-12 15:51 +0200, Bonno Bloksma wrote: […] >> When I want to remove the dummy dhcp3 package, the real isc package also >> gets removed. > This is general problem with dummy transitional packages. The > package they pull in gets marked as "automatic

Re: how to change root passwd (if forgotten)

2011-08-11 Thread Ivan Shmakov
> Robert Blair Mason writes: > On Thu, 11 Aug 2011 15:48:02 -0600 >> sulogin is easy enough to bypass. >> * Boot Live CD >> * Mount / >> * Edit /etc/inittab >> * Comment out si::sysinit:/etc/init.d/rcS >> * Reboot into single user mode >> Much easer than chroots, or any of the ot

Gmane (was: Re: Hdd recipes for preseeding d-i)

2011-08-11 Thread Ivan Shmakov
> Diederik de Haas writes: > On Thursday 11 August 2011 14:26:39 Wawrzek Niewodniczanski wrote: >> You ask for help and ask people to do additional step to help you. >> Shouldn't you rather subscribe to the list? > My time is limited and I've chosen to subscribe to other (lower > vol

Re: how to change root passwd (if forgotten)

2011-08-11 Thread Ivan Shmakov
> Francois Cerbelle writes: > Le Wed, 10 Aug 2011 18:10:02 +0200, Thierry Chatelet a écrit: > On Wednesday 10 August 2011 17:53:26 Umarzuki Mochlis wrote: >>> if i'm not mistaken you can just go to single user mode on centos >>> by appending "1" or "single" (without quotes) on boot

Re: how to change root passwd (if forgotten)

2011-08-10 Thread Ivan Shmakov
> abdelkader belahcene writes: […] > then I decided to remove passwd from /etc/shadow (delete the > second field). > OK, now I can access my machine without passwd, BUT I CAN´T GIVE ANY > PASSWORD I RECEIVE THIS ERROR > # passwd* > *Changing password for user root. > New passwo

Re: bash quoting problems

2011-08-10 Thread Ivan Shmakov
> thomas kral writes: >>> I have a problem with the following sed snippet >>> sed -i s"|^\( *PATH="\)\(.*\)|\1$ADD:\2|" ~/profile-test >>> I need soft quotes in order for $ADD to expand and I also need to math >>> against one doublequote in the regexp in for $ADD to be put in the >>> c

Re: bash quoting problems

2011-08-09 Thread Ivan Shmakov
> Andreas Berglund writes: > I have a problem with the following sed snippet > sed -i s"|^\( *PATH="\)\(.*\)|\1$ADD:\2|" ~/profile-test > I need soft quotes in order for $ADD to expand and I also need to > math against one doublequote in the regexp in for $ADD to be put in > the corrct

Re: Problem with USB storage device - video glasses

2011-08-09 Thread Ivan Shmakov
>>>>> Bret Busby writes: >>>>> On Wed, 10 Aug 2011, Ivan Shmakov wrote: >>>>> Bret Busby writes: >>> sdb: unknown partition table >> What's the result of the following command? >> $ file -s /dev/sdb > " >

Re: Problem with USB storage device - video glasses

2011-08-09 Thread Ivan Shmakov
> Bret Busby writes: […] > sdb: unknown partition table What's the result of the following command? $ file -s /dev/sdb Is it possible to mount /dev/sdb manually? E. g.: $ sudo mount -v /dev/sdb /mnt/ What are the messages displayed by the command above? […] -

Re: how to examine ssh problem

2011-08-04 Thread Ivan Shmakov
> Alan Chandler writes: > (I actually have loads of these in my config file for all different > combinations of username and host - I also tend to make different key > pairs for each host which is why I am specifying an IdentityFile in > each.) Why? The asymmetric cryptography e

Re: Generate OpenSSL CSR in Squeeze

2011-07-27 Thread Ivan Shmakov
>>>>> David A Parker writes: >>>>> On 07/27/2011 11:55 AM, Ivan Shmakov wrote: […] >> While I don't know what may cause this behavior, I'd try to use >> GnuTLS' certtool(1) to generate the request, in the hope that >> it's u

Re: Routing weird IPs

2011-07-27 Thread Ivan Shmakov
>>>>> Paulo Santos writes: >>>>> Ivan Shmakov wrote: >>>>> Paulo Santos writes: >>> 192.168.168.0/255.255.255.192 - 10.120.43.158 >> The last one should probably be as follows instead: >> 192.168.160.0/255.255.255.192 - 10

Re: Routing weird IPs

2011-07-27 Thread Ivan Shmakov
> Paulo Santos writes: […] > Plus this routes: > 10.0.0.0 /255.0.0.0 - 10.120.43.158 > 62.48.163.64/255.224.0.0 - 10.200.34.158 > 192.168.168.0/255.255.255.192 - 10.120.43.158 The last one should probably be as follows instead: 192.168.160.0/255.255.255.192 - 10.120.43.158

Re: Generate OpenSSL CSR in Squeeze

2011-07-27 Thread Ivan Shmakov
> David A Parker writes: > We have an RSA key with no encryption password, and we need to generate > a CSR using this key. However, when I try to generate a CSR, I get an > error: > # openssl req -new -key server.key -out server.csr > Enter pass phrase for server.key: I guess

Re: which command I should use to output sequentially,

2011-07-27 Thread Ivan Shmakov
> lina writes: […] > May I ask further, which is the best (systematic) way of learning the > script, based on all your experience. Personally, my own way of learning Shell was hardly a “systematic” one. However, just for the record, I've used the GNU bash manual

Shell vs. other high-level languages

2011-07-27 Thread Ivan Shmakov
>>>>> shawn wilson writes: >>>>> On Jul 27, 2011 4:28 AM, "Ivan Shmakov" wrote: >>>>> shawn wilson writes: >>> However, I'd look at some of the bio perl modules if this was the >>> type of data I was looking at.

Re: which command I should use to output sequentially,

2011-07-27 Thread Ivan Shmakov
>>>>> shawn wilson writes: >>>>> On Jul 27, 2011 3:44 AM, "Ivan Shmakov" wrote: […] >> While I've little to say about using a database for this case, I'd >> strongly recommend /against/ using any office-like solutions for &g

Re: fstab for usb devices in Squeeze

2011-07-27 Thread Ivan Shmakov
> Mark Grieveson writes: >> My fstab doesn't have any entries for usb disks. I use fluxbox and >> I use pcmanfm (a file manager) to mount/unmount usb sticks. > That's interesting. A while back, when I tossed out gnome and gdm in > favour of fluxbox and startx, I likely also removed aut

Re: which command I should use to output sequentially,

2011-07-27 Thread Ivan Shmakov
> shawn wilson writes: […] > Might I recommend a plethora of free database solutions available to > you? I see this type of question quite frequently and am stunned to > see such a thing here (or on other mailing lists for platforms just a > poorly suited for such data). I'm not sure wh

Re: which command I should use to output sequentially,

2011-07-26 Thread Ivan Shmakov
>>>>> lina writes: >>>>> On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 1:36 PM, Ivan Shmakov wrote: […] >> $ sed -e 's/^\(\s*\w\+\s\+[^0-9[:blank:]]\+\)\([[:digit:]]\+\)/\1 \2/' \ >> | sort -nk 3,3 -k1,1 \ >> | sed -e 's/^\(\s*\w\+\s\+[^0-

Re: which command I should use to output sequentially,

2011-07-26 Thread Ivan Shmakov
> lina writes: First of all, a kindly reminder: there's a news:comp.unix.shell newsgroup (also available via Google Groups [1], though a proper newsreader software is recommended), with a few truly knowledgeable folks among the subscribers, which such question

Re: disable fbcon in Debian Wheezy (Live)?

2011-07-26 Thread Ivan Shmakov
>>>>> Camaleón writes: >>>>> On Mon, 25 Jul 2011 01:23:47 +0700, Ivan Shmakov wrote: >>>>> Camaleón writes: >>>>> On Sun, 24 Jul 2011 18:23:54 +0700, Ivan Shmakov wrote: […] >>>> Otherwise, fbcon works pretty much cor

Re: sound problem with lenny

2011-07-26 Thread Ivan Shmakov
> Long Wind writes: […] > I have made some progress If sound doesn't work commands below can > config sound: > rmmod snd-pcsp > rmmod snd-sb16 > modprobe snd-sb16 isapnp=0 Is there a line like the following somewhere in /etc/modprobe.d/? options snd-sb16 isapnp=0 >

Re: What are the 94 printable characters from the 128 characters of ASCII table?

2011-07-24 Thread Ivan Shmakov
> yudi v writes: > Hi Paul, > I am pretty sure you are mistaken, > 126-32 = 94 Let's try a simpler range: 32 to 32 is 1 character. And 32 - 32 is, obviously, zero. Doesn't it seem like an off-by-one error? > and space is a printable character. Well, I don't h

Re: rsync backup question

2011-07-24 Thread Ivan Shmakov
> Paul E Condon writes: > On 20110722_142620, lee wrote: […] >> There isn't much point in using rsync since you're neither copying >> to a > ^^ > If the copy job fails 3/4 way thru, one can pick up the pieces and > continue using rsync. So even if it is a one time

Re: fstab for usb devices in Squeeze

2011-07-24 Thread Ivan Shmakov
> Mark Grieveson writes: > Hello. Back in the good old days when I used Lenny, I was able to > mount my usb stick, mount my digital camera, and sync my palm pilot, > at the same time. After upgrading to Squeeze, this now seems like an > impossible dream. […] … Is pmount [1] an

Re: limiting email sizes when sending files

2011-07-24 Thread Ivan Shmakov
>>>>> Erwan David writes: >>>>> On 24/07/11 22:23, Ivan Shmakov wrote: […] >> Huh? Base64 has overhead of only 33.(3)%? > Add another 3,33% for CRLF each 80 encoded characters (2 caharacters > each 60 bytes) Indeed. -- FSF associate m

Re: ssh: no route to host

2011-07-24 Thread Ivan Shmakov
> François TOURDE writes: > Le 15179ième jour après Epoch, Camaleón écrivait: > On Sat, 23 Jul 2011 23:22:57 +0200, François TOURDE wrote: >>> No route to host means: "I or some other router on the road can't find >>> the hardware associated with the IP given, or the way to reach it

Re: limiting email sizes when sending files

2011-07-24 Thread Ivan Shmakov
>>>>> Andrew McGlashan writes: >>>>> Ivan Shmakov wrote: >> Huh? Base64 has overhead of only 33.(3)%? > Won't that vary by file? I guess it won't. Base64 sends each 6-bit of data as an ASCII character, which is (usually) rep

Re: problem with ISA SB 16

2011-07-24 Thread Ivan Shmakov
>>>>> Long Wind writes: >>>>> On Sun, Jul 24, 2011 at 7:01 AM, Ivan Shmakov wrote: >> I guess, the output of either cat(1) or less(1) should be more >> informative. […] > below is output by "cat /dev/sndstat": > Sound Driver:3.

Re: disable fbcon in Debian Wheezy (Live)?

2011-07-24 Thread Ivan Shmakov
>>>>> Camaleón writes: >>>>> On Sun, 24 Jul 2011 18:23:54 +0700, Ivan Shmakov wrote: […] >> Otherwise, fbcon works pretty much correctly for the case in >> question. As per lsmod, the driver is i915. > Intel KMS requires fbcon, unless this h

Re: limiting email sizes when sending files

2011-07-24 Thread Ivan Shmakov
> Andrew McGlashan writes: […] > The other thing that many people don't seem to understand, is that > sending a large binary file as an attachment requires the attachment > to be encoded back to printable characters -- this can increase the > payload of an email by 50%. Huh? Ba

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